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Respondents: Packers required to
report information for the Swine
Contract Library.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 30
packers (total of 43 plants).
Estimated Number of Responses per
Plant: Number of responses per plant
varies. Some plants would have no
contracts, while other could have up to
80 contracts. We receive an average of
six example contracts per plant per year
for offered contracts and for amended
existing or available contracts.
Estimated Total Annual Burden on
Respondents: Initial filing: 5.5 total
hours for the initial filing of examples
of existing contracts by all plants newly
subject to the regulations combined.
Based on changes in the industry, we
anticipate one new plant to become
subject to the regulations each year.
Calculated as follows: 4 hours per plant
for initial review × 1 new plant = 4
hours for initial review; 0.25 hours per
contract × 6 example contracts per plant
× 1 new plant = 1.5 hours; 4 hours + 1.5
hours = 5.5 total hours.
Thereafter, 64.5 total hours annually
for all subsequent filing of examples for
offered contracts and for amended
existing or available contracts by all
plants combines, based on an average of
6 offered or amended existing or
available contracts annually. Calculated
as follows: 0.25 hours per contract × 6
example contracts per plant × 43 plants
= 64.5 hours.
Total Cost: Initial filing $138 for all
plants combined. Calculated as follows:
5.5 hours × $25 per hour = $138.
Thereafter, $1,613 annually for all
plants combined for submission of
subsequent filings. Calculated as
follows: 64.5 hours × $25 per hour =
$1,613.
(2) Monthly Report: Estimate of Swine
To Be Delivered Under Contract (Form
P&SP–341)
Estimate of Burden: The reporting
burden for compiling data, completing
and submitting the form is estimated to
average 2 hours per manually prepared
and submitted (by mail or facsimile)
report and 1 hour per electronically
prepared and submitted report. There
would be an estimated additional onetime set up burden of 1 hour at a cost
of $60 per plant for a packer that chose
to create a spreadsheet or database for
recordkeeping and preparation of
monthly estimates. There would be an
estimated additional 2 hour burden at a
cost of $60 per hour or $120 per plant
for a packer to develop procedures to
extract and format the required
information and to develop an interface
between the packer’s electronic
recordkeeping system and GIPSA’s
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system. The hourly rate for the
development of electronic tools is
assumed to be high due to the need to
use personnel with specialized
computer skills.
Respondents: Packers required to
report information for the Swine
Contract Library.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 30
packers (total of 43 plants).
Estimated Number of Responses per
Plant: 12 (1 per month for 12 months).
Estimated Total Annual Burden on
Respondents: 1,032 hours for all plants
combined provided all plants used
manual compiling, preparation, and
submission. Calculated as follows: 2
hours per response × 43 plants × 12
responses per plant = 1,032.
516 hours for all plants combined
provided all plants use electronic
compiling, preparation, and submission.
Calculated as follows: 1 hour per
response × 43 plants × 12 responses per
plant = 516 hours.
Total Cost: $25,800 annually for all
plants combined provided all use
manual submission. Calculated as
follows: 1,032 × $25 per hour = $25,800.
$12,900 annually for all plants
combined provided all were to
completely utilize electronic
preparation and submission. Calculated
as follows: 516 hours × $25 per hour =
$12,900.
Additional $180 one-time set-up cost
provided all plants newly subject to the
Regulations were to completely utilize
electronic systems for preparation and
submission.
Calculated as follows: 1 hour build
spreadsheet/database + 2 hours develop
electronic interface = 3 hours. 3 hours
total development × $60 per hour × 1
new plant = $180.
The Paperwork Reduction Act also
requires GIPSA to measure the
recordkeeping burden. Under the
Packers and Stockyards Act and its
existing regulations, each packer is
required to maintain and make available
upon request any records necessary to
verify information on all transactions
between the packer and producers from
whom the packer obtains swine for
slaughter. Records that packers are
required to maintain under existing
regulations would meet the
requirements for verifying the accuracy
of information required to be reported
for the Swine Contract Library. These
records include original contracts,
agreements, receipts, schedules, and
other records associated with any
transaction related to the purchase,
pricing, and delivery of swine for
slaughter under the terms of marketing
contracts. Additional annual costs of
maintaining records would be nominal
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since packers are required to store and
maintain such records as a matter of
normal business practice and in
conformity with existing regulations.
As required by the Paperwork
Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A))
and its implementing regulations (5 CFR
1320.8(d)(1)), we specifically request
comment to:
(a) Evaluate the proposed collection of
information is necessary for the proper
performance of the functions of the
agency, including whether the
information will have practical utility;
(b) Evaluate the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of the burden of the
proposed collection of information,
including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used;
(c) Enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and
(d) Minimize the burden on the
collection of information on those who
are to respond, including through the
use of appropriate automated,
electronic, mechanical, or other
technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
All responses to this notice will be
summarized and included in the request
for the Office of Management and
Budget approval. All comments will
also become a matter of public record.
Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3506 and 5 CFR
1320.8.
Larry Mitchell,
Administrator, Grain Inspection, Packers and
Stockyards Administration.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Rural Utilities Service
Publication of Depreciation Rates
Rural Utilities Service, USDA.
Notice.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
The United States Department
of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Utilities
Service (RUS) administers rural utilities
programs, including the
Telecommunications Program. RUS
announces the depreciation rates for
telecommunications plant for the period
ending December 31, 2011.
DATES: These rates are effective
immediately and will remain in effect
until rates are available for the period
ending December 31, 2012.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Jonathan P. Claffey, Deputy Assistant
Administrator, Telecommunications
Program, Rural Utilities Service, STOP
SUMMARY:
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1590—Room 5151, 1400 Independence
Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20250–
1590. Telephone: (202) 720–9556.
In 7 CFR
part 1737, Pre-Loan Policies and
Procedures Common to Insured and
Guaranteed Telecommunications Loans,
§ 1737.70(e) explains the depreciation
rates that are used by RUS in its
feasibility studies. § 1737.70(e)(2) refers
to median depreciation rates published
by RUS for all borrowers. The following
chart provides those rates, compiled by
RUS, for the reporting period ending
December 31, 2011:
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
MEDIAN DEPRECIATION RATES OF
RURAL UTILITIES SERVICE BORROWERS BY EQUIPMENT CATEGORY
FOR PERIOD ENDING DECEMBER 31,
2011
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Telecommunications plant
category
1. Land and Support Assets: ...............................
a. Motor vehicles ...............
b. Aircraft ...........................
c. Special purpose vehicles ................................
d. Garage and other work
equipment ......................
e. Buildings .......................
f. Furniture and office
equipment ......................
g. General purpose computers .............................
2. Central Office Switching:
a. Digital ............................
b. Analog & Electro-mechanical .........................
c. Operator Systems .........
3. Central Office Transmission:
a. Radio Systems ..............
b. Circuit equipment ..........
4. Information origination/termination:
a. Station apparatus ..........
b. Customer premises wiring ..................................
c. Large private branch exchanges .........................
d. Public telephone terminal equipment ............
e. Other terminal equipment ...............................
5. Cable and wire facilities:
a. Aerial cable—poles .......
b. Aerial cable—metal .......
c. Aerial cable—fiber .........
d. Underground cable—
metal ..............................
e. Underground cable—
fiber ................................
f. Buried cable—metal ......
g. Buried cable—fiber .......
h. Conduit systems ...........
i. Other ..............................
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Depreciation
rate
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16.00
12.00
13.03
10.00
3.20
10.00
20.00
9.00
10.00
9.00
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9.95
10.00
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11.90
10.00
11.40
11.25
10.20
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6.00
5.80
5.00
5.00
5.00
5.15
5.00
3.50
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Dated: October 9, 2012.
John Padalino,
Acting Administrator of the Rural Utilities
Service.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Submission for OMB Review;
Comment Request
The Department of Commerce will
submit to the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) for clearance the
following proposal for collection of
information under the provisions of the
Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C.
Chapter 35).
Agency: International Trade
Administration.
Title: International Client Life-cycle
Multi-Purpose Forms.
OMB Control Number: 0625–0237.
Form Number(s): ITA–4096P.
Type of Request: Regular submission
(revision of a currently approved
information collection).
Burden Hours: 14,234.
Number of Respondents: 47,318.
Average Hours per Response: 5–30
minutes.
Annual Cost to the Public: $8,625,000
($345 per client for 25,000 Events and
Activities services).
Needs and Uses: The Commercial
Service (CS) offers their clients DOC
programs, market research, and services
to enable the client to begin importing
or to expand existing importing efforts.
Specific information is required in order
to determine the client’s business
objectives and needs. This information
collection is designed to elicit such data
so that appropriate services can be
proposed and conducted to most
effectively meet the client’s importing
goals. The CS has made efforts to
provide more customized services to
clients thereby requesting approval to
use a service order form for customized
services as well as for standardized
services such as the International
Partner Search and Gold Key Service.
The information collected is used
internally and is not disseminated to the
public.
These forms will also reduce client
burden through forms’ flexibility and
technology. The CS also seeks increased
forms flexibility to ensure that CS asks
and captures only the specific
information needed for a particular
service/event, thereby continuing to
reduce client burdens as CS utilizes prepopulated information for clients who
have previously registered with CS. As
a client request specific CS services, a
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set of questions will be presented to
determine how CS will proceed to give
the client the best export outcome.
This revision to produce a customized
form for each CS client, and will cover
all aspects of an international client’s
life-cycle with CS, involves merging
with other information collections:
OMB Control Nos: 0625–0065, 0625–
0130, 0625–0151, 0625–0215, 0625–
0220, 0625–0228, 0625–0143, and 0625–
0238. These collections include all
client intake, events/activities and
export success forms. The set of
questions used to generate the
customized forms have been approved
under the aforementioned information
collections. Upon OMB approval, these
information collections will be
discontinued.
Affected Public: Business or other forprofit organizations.
Frequency: On occasion.
Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary.
OMB Desk Officer: Wendy Liberante,
(202) 395–3647.
Copies of the above information
collection proposal can be obtained by
calling or writing Jennifer Jessup,
Departmental Paperwork Clearance
Officer, (202) 482–0336, Department of
Commerce, Room 6616, 14th and
Constitution Avenue NW., Washington,
DC 20230 (or via the Internet at
JJessup@doc.gov.)
Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent
within 30 days of publication of this
notice to Wendy Liberante, OMB Desk
Officer, Fax number (202) 395–5167 or
via the Internet at
Wendy_L._Liberante@omb.eop.gov.
Dated: October 24, 2012.
Gwellnar Banks,
Management Analyst, Office of the Chief
Information Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Submission for OMB Review;
Comment Request
The Department of Commerce will
submit to the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) for clearance the
following proposal for collection of
information under the provisions of the
Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C.
Chapter 35).
Agency: National Institute of
Standards and Technology (NIST).
Title: Usage of Elevators for Occupant
Evacuation Questionnaire.
OMB Control Number: 0693–0061.
Form Number(s): None.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Rural Utilities Service
Publication of Depreciation Rates
AGENCY: Rural Utilities Service, USDA.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural
Utilities Service (RUS) administers rural utilities programs, including
the Telecommunications Program. RUS announces the depreciation rates
for telecommunications plant for the period ending December 31, 2011.
DATES: These rates are effective immediately and will remain in effect
until rates are available for the period ending December 31, 2012.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jonathan P. Claffey, Deputy Assistant
Administrator, Telecommunications Program, Rural Utilities Service,
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1590--Room 5151, 1400 Independence Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20250-
1590. Telephone: (202) 720-9556.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In 7 CFR part 1737, Pre-Loan Policies and
Procedures Common to Insured and Guaranteed Telecommunications Loans,
Sec. 1737.70(e) explains the depreciation rates that are used by RUS
in its feasibility studies. Sec. 1737.70(e)(2) refers to median
depreciation rates published by RUS for all borrowers. The following
chart provides those rates, compiled by RUS, for the reporting period
ending December 31, 2011:
Median Depreciation Rates of Rural Utilities Service Borrowers by
Equipment Category for Period Ending December 31, 2011
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Depreciation
Telecommunications plant category rate
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1. Land and Support Assets:........................... ..............
a. Motor vehicles..................................... 16.00
b. Aircraft........................................... 12.00
c. Special purpose vehicles........................... 13.03
d. Garage and other work equipment.................... 10.00
e. Buildings.......................................... 3.20
f. Furniture and office equipment..................... 10.00
g. General purpose computers.......................... 20.00
2. Central Office Switching:
a. Digital............................................ 9.00
b. Analog & Electro-mechanical........................ 10.00
c. Operator Systems................................... 9.00
3. Central Office Transmission: ..............
a. Radio Systems...................................... 9.95
b. Circuit equipment.................................. 10.00
4. Information origination/termination: ..............
a. Station apparatus.................................. 11.90
b. Customer premises wiring........................... 10.00
c. Large private branch exchanges..................... 11.40
d. Public telephone terminal equipment................ 11.25
e. Other terminal equipment........................... 10.20
5. Cable and wire facilities: ..............
a. Aerial cable--poles................................ 6.00
b. Aerial cable--metal................................ 5.80
c. Aerial cable--fiber................................ 5.00
d. Underground cable--metal........................... 5.00
e. Underground cable--fiber........................... 5.00
f. Buried cable--metal................................ 5.15
g. Buried cable--fiber................................ 5.00
h. Conduit systems.................................... 3.50
i. Other.............................................. 5.59
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Dated: October 9, 2012.
John Padalino,
Acting Administrator of the Rural Utilities Service.
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